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[bassexpander]

Wow. What a great flick. Been a while since I've seen one that good. Long, but very impressive.

[riverboy]

I agree. I liked Slumdog Millionare better.

[FMPJ]

If you see only one version of Forrest Gump this year, let it be Benjamin Button.

[Spike]

[Rusty Shackleford]

A very solid movie, trying to be a great movie. The movie of the year, for me is, "In Bruges." Button is a great premise with a great performance by Pitt, as we have come to expect from him but it just didn't do it for me some how.

Slumdog is so over rated by my reckoning, I'm going to watch it again just to give it the benefit of the doubt. "In Bruges" and "Let the Right One In" are far superior films to Slumdog and Button (IMO).

[Captain Corea]

Thought it was good, but fell short of great. I felt a serious disconect from the main character (even though I've dug Pitt's acting of late).

[VanIslander]

It was awful and I wasn't the only one around here who thought so when the thread for that movie was created in December when it first came out.

Jokes galore have been made on the 'net (Jon Stewart and Colbert too)about how boring that film was, how plodding the plot, how the makeup does half the acting, how there's no way in hell it deserves half of its nominations.

There are plenty of better films of 2008, in every respect.

[Slaps]

I have to agree with V.I on this one, I thought it was poor. Considering all the hype and expectation, it was a huge let down and way too long.

Of the movies mentioned in this thread, In Bruges was the best. Great script, good acting and a great movie.

[endo]

I really enjoyed it.

I also saw Valkrie the day before and enjoyed that one too.


The Day After Tomorrow sucked!


So that's my incredibly uninspiring review of the last three movies I saw.

[Sapa]

I thought it was absolute shite. It tried way too hard to be important and meaningful. It's a poor man's Forest Gump.

Three top movies recently.... Slumdog Millionaire, Let The Right One In, Changeling. All of these 100 hundred times better.

[VanIslander]

Yeah Sapa, Changeling was 100 times better!

[yingwenlaoshi]

I can't seem to finish it. It's one of those movies that I'm pondering on deleting task and all downloaded files.

[bassexpander]

It is very long. If you're not American, I can see where it might be less exciting.

[prideofidaho]

the movie had a good premise, but lacked the right focus. To me, the whole relationship angle went on way, way too long. Here's a man who's lived his life backwards, so what could have been more interesting is trying to show how he would have seen the events of his lifetime. They sort of touched on that, but the bloody relationship took over.

I'm so bored of stories of love that just can't happen, or that's given up on for whatever inconceivable and unrealistic circumstance.

If they'd spent more time on interesting things, like when he was working on that ship, or the war, or the time he spent in India when he was regressing into his teenage years (which they just glazed right over), well then maybe it could have been better.

In Bruges was funny at times, but come on, what was so interesting about the plot? Guy becomes hitman, on first job guy kills a kid, guy is emotionally wrecked about it, boss takes hit out on guy. I could have thought that up with a concussion and twelve beers.

Blindness. Now THAT's a movie I liked.

[cj1976]

The scene from In Bruges with the coked-up dwarf predicting a global race war was for me, one of the most memorable of the last year. Classic stuff.